Buzard Pipe Organ Builders has completed renovations and restorations to the Wurlitzer Theater Organ from the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, IL. The Wurlitzer Style 185 was first installed without a Tibia, as was the fashion in 1921; as the Tibia color became an essential component of movie theater organ accompaniment sound, the owners had […] Read More
St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Danville. IL This organ started out as a small electropneumatic action 1920’s Hinners unit organ and became Eclectic Provinance Instrument . Buzard assumed care of the organ in 2007 and immediately began what became a five-year project of necessary corrections and improvements. There had been ill-advised interventions by various firms over […] Read More
The congregation, founded in 1879, purchased the organ from Casavant Frères, Limitée, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada in 1922 as their opus 940 and 941 (the latter number for the antiphonal divisions). A console by Austin Organs, Incorporated, replaced the original console. The organ has nine divisions (Great, Swell, Choir, Solo, Choir Echo, Solo Echo, Corridor Diapason, […] Read More
Robinson, IL 2015 Delaware Unit Organ This charming unit organ has been recently relocated to the new sanctuary of First United Methodist Church in Robinson, Illinois […] Read More
1980 Gabriel Kney, opus 93 The Thomas Aquinas Chapel at the St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology is the third home of the 1980 Gabriel Kney opus 93. Previously, it was located in the First Community Church in Dallas, Texas. While there, it was in the charge of the Schudi Organ Company who updated […] Read More
1962 Schaefer organ, Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception, Peoria, IL Repairs and improvements were completed by Buzard Pipe Organ Builders, in 2010 to the organ in the order’s Chapel, as follows: The console was removed to the Buzard factory for complete renovation. Work included the following items: • Manual keyboards and pedalboard […] Read More